Guest post by Paul Drabik
In October, former Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tom Homan, joined Behind Enemy Lines podcast hosts Terry Newsome and Paul Drabik to talk about the disastrous border crisis.
The podcast duo teamed up with Gateway Pundit in 2024 to shine a light on the effect of mass immigration to the city of Chicago and the sanctuary state of Illinois.
Chicago has been overrun by imported crime through mass immigration.
Tren de Aragua, the transnational Venezuelan criminal gang, has been spotted in Chicago and its suburbs. To make matters worse, the Illinois taxpayer is on the hook for feeding and housing the “migrants.”
During the interview, Director Homan addresses the issue of NGOs and the Catholic Church making billions off of the immigration crisis. Gateway Pundit previously reported that Catholic Charities is colluding with the city of Chicago and an Obama-affiliated NGO to place people for up to six months in apartments.
In the period between December 2022 and February 2023 over 15,200 people were settled.
According to reports made to the City of Chicago by Catholic Charities caseworkers, 3,445 of the 15,200 were moved to housing.
It’s no wonder that Illinois raised taxes by $1 billion in 2024. The largest increase will go to “human services,” which will allocate the lion’s share to emergency funding for migrants arriving in Chicago.
Many of the newly arriving immigrants are children. While discussing the subject of missing and trafficked children, Director Homan addressed the Biden Administration’s culpability.
According to Homan, the Trump administration had been DNA testing children to ensure the sponsors who claimed the children were related.
Homan says that this policy was abandoned by the Biden administration because it is “…cutting time in detention…” and as a result, “…no overcrowding, then we can claim everything’s under control.”
However, human trafficking has been a major problem amongst the mass-migrated population.
In May of 2024, The Gateway Pundit and Behind Enemy Lines reported – through a FOIA request – evidence of human trafficking found on a government-funded “Vortex” phone belonging to a “migrant.”
Most concerning is the number of missing children. According to another Gateway Pundit article from October 16th, there are over 300,000 children unaccounted for by DHS.
Homan tells Behind Enemy Lines that over 148,000 children have been released to a sponsor for which the Federal government cannot find either the child or the sponsor.
Director Homan describes a manufactured chaos. The federal government is seemingly creating a new class of citizen where they will take in an immigrant without vetting or requiring identification.
Anecdotally, Homan describes being at the border and finding troves of passports and other documentation amongst abandoned encampments.
Homan notes that people can provide names to the authorities at the border and they will in turn provide that person with documentation allowing them to travel and board a plane.
The question becomes, how can that identifying document be used at their destination within the United States?
For example, it’s interesting to note that Illinois has same-day voter registration. Can citizens be guaranteed that voter fraud via unvetted immigrants is being protected against?
The most concerning assertion from Director Homan was in response to the question about a potential terror attack. In reference to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th of 2023, Drabik asked Director Homan how realistic a similar situation in the United States would be.
Homan’s response was, “Oh, it’s comin.” Of course, Homan’s response is not all that surprising given the Federal government’s border policy and the information already available to the public.
According to Customs and Border Protection, there have been over 400 encounters by border patrol with individuals on the terrorist watchlist in 2024 alone! As Homan points out, that does not include the over 2 million “gotaways” that the government has no ability to track.
Finally, Director Homan made an interesting comment regarding President Trump’s future policy toward the drug cartels.
Homan observes that the drug cartels are responsible for killing a quarter million Americans through fentanyl alone.
Regarding the cartels, Homan says of a future Trump administration, “…So he’s gonna designate them as a terrorist organization, and he’s gonna wipe them off the face of the earth.”
This would be a fascinating development for the future of United States national security. Perhaps Homan is letting the cat out of the bag.
However, President Trump had seemingly shifted toward an isolationist foreign policy posture during his first administration.
It would follow that disembarking from the involvement in foreign wars would allow the United States to focus on strengthening national security at home.
Given Trump’s recent partnership with RFK and the “Make America Healthy Again,” addition to the campaign, it would certainly help to eliminate the fentanyl scourge brought about by the cartels. Regardless, a safe border includes Tom Homan as a main ingredient to a new, and healthier America.
Hear the entire interview of Homan here:
